During my commute from our home in Gig Harbor to our law office in Seattle I’m listening to a book on tape about the observations of Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC generally referred to as The Art of War. I have read this material several times, but I gather new thoughts each time I review it. Here are some ideas from the book that I think apply to trial lawyers. A couple of the precepts include the following…
We just returned home after two weeks of travel in Europe so I am behind in posting to this blog. I haven’t had a chance to develop something for this week so let me share a short story of my start as a lawyer almost half a century ago. It was forty six years ago at a movie theater in down town Spokane. A dozen or so of us gathered on a Saturday in the movie theater with our families…
I am in Madeira, Portugal out in the Atlantic ocean near Morocco, Africa so my postings will be brief and perhaps irregular until our return. I’ve also admired and benefited from Victor E. Frankel’s book Man’s search for Meaning. Here are some of rthe observations from this man who survived Jewish concentration camps where so many people were murdered. Why am I sharing these on a legal blog? Because I believe these are thoughts we trial lawyers can benefit and…